Patents by Inventor Robyn Sambo

Robyn Sambo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11900046
    Abstract: A method and system for providing one or more suggested application features to a user of an application may include receiving an indication of a user action in a document, accessing contextual document data associated with the document, providing at least one of information about the user action or the contextual document data as input to a machine-learning (ML) model to predict a desired intent for the document, obtaining the predicted desired intent as an output from the ML model, identifying based on the predicted desired intent one or more application features that fulfil the desired intent, and providing data about the one or more application features for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Derik Bjorn Stenerson, Bernhard Kohlmeier, Robyn Sambo, HongQiao Li, Jignesh Shah, Riyang Liu
  • Publication number: 20220043964
    Abstract: A method and system for providing one or more suggested application features to a user of an application may include receiving an indication of a user action in a document, accessing contextual document data associated with the document, providing at least one of information about the user action or the contextual document data as input to a machine-learning (ML) model to predict a desired intent for the document, obtaining the predicted desired intent as an output from the ML model, identifying based on the predicted desired intent one or more application features that fulfil the desired intent, and providing data about the one or more application features for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Derik Bjorn STENERSON, Bernhard KOHLMEIER, Robyn SAMBO, HongQiao LI, Jignesh SHAH, Riyang LIU
  • Publication number: 20210319068
    Abstract: An in-application search service receives a query from a user attempting to locate information within a document. If a current index and current vector table do not exist, a content indexing service produces an index and a vector table based on the current content of the document. The vector table is based on semantic models that have been pre-trained. The query is tokenized and one of three different processing paths are taken based on the length of the tokenized query. For a single term query, a semantic search and prefix search are performed and the results are combined. If the length of tokenized query exceeds a threshold, a semantic search produces the results. Otherwise, search results are produced based on both prefix fanout and semantic fanout. Results are deduplicated, snippets are extracted, and the results and/or snippets are presented to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: HongQiao LI, Bernhard KOHLMEIER, Xiaosong YANG, Le YU, Lin SONG, Hao MI, Derik Bjorn STENERSON, Seok Woo John KIM, Robyn SAMBO
  • Patent number: 10740367
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for indicating a change to content in a document to a user. A document is displayed in a user interface to an application. Content then is introduced into the document from a source external to the document. After the content has been introduced into the document, the source of the content is queried for any changes to the content at the source. If a change has occurred, an indication of the change to the content at the source is introduced in the document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Taylor, Robyn Sambo, James S. Masson, Michael Gary Heyns, Victor Poznanski, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Seth Fox, Yibing Zhu, Georges Krinker, Robin Emily Wakefield, Robert A. Little, Ali Taleghani
  • Publication number: 20190220539
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for indicating a change to content in a document to a user. A document is displayed in a user interface to an application. Content then is introduced into the document from a source external to the document. After the content has been introduced into the document, the source of the content is queried for any changes to the content at the source. If a change has occurred, an indication of the change to the content at the source is introduced in the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas Taylor, Robyn Sambo, James S. Masson, Michael Gary Heyns, Victor Poznanski, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Seth Fox, Yibing Zhu, Georges Krinker, Robin Emily Wakefield, Robert A. Little, Ali Taleghani